Site overview

Braunston Tower Mill is a surviving tower corn mill at Braunston, Northamptonshire. Windmill World records it at the supplied coordinates and identifies it as a tower mill converted to a house. The site is linked to a Mills Archive record for Tower Mill, Braunston, and Historic England archive photography records the building as The Mill on Church Road, Braunston, photographed in 2000.

The available online evidence confirms the site identity, tower-mill type, corn-milling function, and later house conversion. Detailed construction date, machinery description, ownership sequence, and final working date were not identified in the consulted sources.

Map

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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.

History

Braunston Tower Mill survives at Braunston and is recorded as a tower corn mill later converted to a house. Windmill World identifies the site at the supplied coordinates as Braunston windmill and records its function as a corn mill. The same record links the site to the Mills Archive entry for Tower Mill, Braunston.

Historic England archive material identifies The Mill on Church Road, Braunston, with a digital photograph dated 20 July 2000. The surviving evidence is mainly present-facing and structural: the site is a tower mill and has been adapted for domestic use. The consulted sources do not provide a full working chronology, machinery inventory, or exact construction and closure dates.

Timeline

Tower corn mill recorded

The site is recorded as a tower mill with corn-milling function.

House conversion recorded

The former tower corn mill is recorded as converted to a house.
2000

Archive photograph recorded

Historic England archive photography recorded The Mill on Church Road, Braunston.

Sources and records

Windmill World entry: Braunston windmill
Mills Archive entry: Tower Mill, Braunston
Historic England archive item: The Mill, Church Road, Braunston